I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. – Charles Dickens
Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and garlands, below, and Christmas sunshine in the winter sky above. All faces shone, all voices had a cheery ring, and everybody stepped briskly on errands of good-will. – Louisa May Alcott, “Seamstress,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873